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When you are setting out to burn calories through everyday activities you must take small steps towards your goal. The great pyramids in Egypt were built by placing one stone upon another… one at a time. Keep thinking on just losing small amounts of weight at any one time. Pick a target of 3 pounds or 5 pounds as a start to your calories activities burning objective.

When you achieve the first 5 pounds loss, have a little celebration. Take your time about deciding if you are going to start on the next step straight away. You may want to test your abilities at maintaining your weight at a constant level for a period. This will help to let your body adjust to its new weight level… and let you reassure yourself that you are capable of keeping control.

Testing and practicing your weight maintenance abilities periodically during your dieting program is very self assuring. This will help you from relapsing when you achieve your ultimate goal. It will also help you to resist the temptation to go on a binge… a dilemma which all of us have to face from during our dieting attempts.

5 WEIGHT LOSS TIPS FOR BURNING CALORIES

Tip No 1… BEWARE SELF DEFEATING THOUGHTS

Look out for self defeating thoughts that will be sure to enter your head from time to time. If you entertain these thoughts they would be sure to interfere with your various activities to burn calories. This would surely upset your ambitions to lose weight.

Typically these thoughts would be… “I’ll have a feast this one time because I’m celebrating”… “I won’t go to the gym today, I’m too busy”… “I’ll have my favorite gateau after dinner because I had a stressful day and I need to relax”…”Oh! It’s a lovely warm day, so I’ll have my favorite strawberries and ice cream.”

Tip No 2…

BANISH SELF INDULGENT THINKING

You must banish these self indulgent thoughts from your mind and keep focusing on thinking about positive things like… I’ll look super in my bathing suit when I’m thinner… I’ll look well in my new outfit on Saturday night. This will help you concentrate on your exercise routine and making sure you are keeping up with activities to burn calories.

Create images in your mind about all the benefits that you’ll enjoy when you lose that fat… This will help you immensely to keep your program on track.

Tip No 3… HOW ACTIVITIES BURN CALORIES

When you want to inhibit your body’s retention of fat calories activities burn them off faster than anything else. To achieve sufficient calorie expenditure you must take regular physical exercise to increase the speed of your metabolism. The speed of metabolism, the metabolic rate, influences how much food a human body will require and consequently how many calories activities burn.

Tip No 4… KNOW YOUR CALORIES

To arrive at a decision about how many calories you have to deal with, you will need to calculate your calorie intake based on your body mass index. For the average sized female, entering a diet program, the recommended calories to be eaten are 1200 to 1400 every day. The average sized male, entering a dieting program to lose fat, should consume 1500 to 1800 calories each day. Always remember that calorie counting can be adjusted to suit almost every diet, food preference and lifestyle.

Tip No 5… ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN “B”

Everyone plans their dieting program and exercise activities around the perfect day… as soon as something goes wrong they abandon the diet and exercise program. You should always assume the day of disaster will eventually arrive… be ready with plan “B” and be willing and able to readjust with immediate effect.